Title Wonder & science : imagining worlds in early modern Europe / Mary Baine Campbell

Edition 1st printing Cornell pbks Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004, ©1999

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Description xiv, 366 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm Series ACLS Fellows' publications ACLS Humanities E-Book Contents I. Introduction -- pt. I. Imagination and Discipline. II. Travel Writing and Ethnographic Pleasure: Andre Thevet and America, Part I. III. The Nature of Things and the Vexations of Art -- pt. II. Alternative Worlds. IV. On the Infinite Universe and the Innumerable Worlds. V. A World in the Moon: Celestial Fictions of Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac. VI. Outside In: Hooke, Cavendish, and the Invisible Worlds -- pt. III. The Arts of Anthropology. VII. Anthropometamorphosis: Manners, Customs, Fashions, and Monsters. VIII. "My Travels to the other World": Aphra Behn and Surinam. IX. E Pluribus Unum: Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains and Enlightenment Ethnology. Coda: The Wild Child Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-352) and index In ACLS Humanities E-Book. Subject Imaginary places -- Early works to 1800 -- History and criticism Cosmography -- Early works to 1800 -- History and criticism Ethnology -- Early works to 1800 -- History and criticism Philosophy and science -- Europe -- History Wonder (Philosophy) -- History Intellectual life. Cosmography. Philosophy and science. Wonder (Philosophy) SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life -- 16th century Europe -- Intellectual life -- 17th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045727 Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045728 Subject Europe. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book Author American Council of Learned Societies. ISBN 0801436486 9780801436482 0801489180 9780801489181

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